Let's start from beggining. Nintendo (NES) was not the greatest console, but it was one of the first, with largest game collection to support it.
That's part that Sega did not understand, so later they become history in console market. Sega Master System (SMS) was technicaly much better then NES.
But still, what made Nintendo great are the games, which some can say are childish, but I would not agree. None of the consoles of that time did include much of 'adult' or 'mature' titles except computers (Amiga, Atari ST and PC, or in early time C64, ZX Spectrum, BBC, ...). Most of the games were actually the same titles, and those titles support my saying that SMS was more advanced and better consoles, as all of them looked and played better on SMS then on NES. But some exclusive titles made Nintendo famouse, including Mario, Zelda, Metroid and later F-Zero and StarFox.
I still play NES and SNES games, as well SMS and Sega Megadrive games, and all of them bring some nice memories back from the 80s-90s.a
And to mention some Nintendo titles:
* Adventure Island (Hudson's version of WonderBoy - made by some programers who actually were working on WonderBoy)
* Adventure of LOLo
* Castelvania - Finished it rescently, it took a lot of tries. Wholse series was nice, with my favorite being N64 version.
* Dr. Mario - nice tetris alike puzzle game
* Final Fantasy - this is were it all started
* Ice Climbers - great game with simple idea
* Metroid - Samus first adventure...
* Megaman - famouse series, but IMO first couple of titles were a bit hard
* Snow Bros - mario on the ice?
* Super Turrican - NES port of the famouse game, that game at the end if its life
* Xevious - nice top view shooter
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